Apollographql
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you run multiple GraphQL services and need federation, a schema registry, and a managed router.
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Apollographql and Hasura both land on Depends.
Buy if you run multiple GraphQL services and need federation, a schema registry, and a managed router.
Buy if you run Postgres and need instant, governed GraphQL with realtime and federation at real scale.
| Compare | Apollographql | Hasura |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Microservices teams unifying GraphQL APIs | Postgres-heavy products needing instant GraphQL |
| Who it's not for | Small teams with one simple API | Small CRUD apps . Supabase or PostgREST is cheaper and simpler |
| Privacy | Active advisory program with published fixes; multiple 2025-26 CVEs including a Router auth bypass and DoS.⁸ | Multiple public CVEs across versions; vendor discloses and patches, but auth misconfiguration remains the top real-world risk. |
| Support quality | No usable support-quality evidence found | No supporting evidence in sources |
| Public sentiment | Reviewers praise the gateway while Reddit shows pricing doubts and occasional frustration with Apollo Server. | Reviewers praise the instant-API model and production stability but complain about pricing changes and permission complexity.14 |
| Biggest gotcha | High-severity CVEs mean you must patch Router and federation promptly | 2023 pricing overhaul caused bill shock; community called it 'full bananas'16 |